Apparatus for conditioning or damping yarns or threads.



. T. HALLIWELL. I APPARATUS FOR CONDITIONING 0R DAMPING YARNS OR THIIEADS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR- 22I I9I5- Patented. Dec, I1, 191? 2 shims-swan 1. V

T. HALLIWELL. I APPARATUS FOR CONDITIONING 0R DAMPING YARNS 0R THREADS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 22, I915.

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THQMAS HALLIWELLJ, or ECGLES, lanesManonns'rna, ENGLANTDL,

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APPARATUS FOR, connrrronnve on DAMPING' YARNS on THREADS.

Applicationfiledlviarch 22, 1915. Serialllp. 16,228.

Conditioning or Damping Yarns or Threads,

of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its ob ect an 1mproved construction ofapparatus for conditioning or damping yarns or threads.

In the accompanying drawings,

Figure 1 illustrates a front sectional elevation, and

Fig. 2 a sectional plan of the improved apparatus.

Fig. 3 illustrates a side elevation (partly in section) of oneof the wagonsuse'd for holding the yarn or threads while being conditioned.

According to the invention, the improved apparatus comprises a large inclosed chamber a, constructed preferably of wood, and of an area in plan suitable for holding a series of wagons b, b, b. In height the chamber-is such as to admit the wagons, which preferably run upon rails 0, and also to admit in its upper part a large hollow trunk or conduit cl, which isalso preferably made of wood. This trunk at one end is closed but at its other end it extends through the wall of the chamber where it joins to one side of the casing of a powerful fan 6, shown diagrammatically.

Behind the chamber a is a further hollow trunk or conduit f,,which on one sideabuts closely against the rear wall of the chamber, see Fig. 2, and at one end communicates with the other side of the fan casing.

In that part of the trunk d nearest the fan is an arrangement of atomizers g, supplied The water will preferably be delivered under pressure to the atomizers by means of an injector i worked by steam or hot air. In the sides and floor of the trunk d are openings 03, graduated in size from one end of the trunk to the other. In the rear wall of the chamher a are holes (2 opening into the trunk or conduit y The wagons b carry removable baskets j which rest upon ledges 5 extending inward from the sides and cross members of the wagon, a large opening 6 being left below each basket. Upon the underface of each basket are the usual battens 7" running lengthwise of the basket whileupon. the transverse parts of the ledgesb are battens 7' theselatter serving to close the openings that wouldotherwise be left between thebas-o kets and ledges at the ends of thebaskets, and making it impossible for anything to pass. downward through the opening 6 without having first tom of the basket.

To one end of each wagon are fitted short pipes/athese latter, when the wagon is fully passed through, the bot specification of Letters Patent. Patented Dec." II, 19f?" infthe chamber at, extending through the openingsa in therearwall of the chambers, seelFig. 2. 1

With the filled with yarn or threads for conditioning, and pushed into the chamber a, the doors a of the chambenwhich are preferably of the sliding type,.are closed. The fan 6 and in jector i are then started, whereupon air is circulated through the trunk cl, through the holes 62, then downward through the baskets, then through the pipes into the conduit 7", and then back to the fan, and so on continuously.

In passing the atomizers g the air takes up the atomized water, and carries the bulk of it through the apparatus, including the baskets j and the yarn therein, the moistened air having no other path than that provided by the interstices in the bottoms of the has kets, the openings 6 and pipes 76 to reach the trunk I The steam or hot air used for injecting the water serves also to heat the water, thereby helping to maintain the humidity of the air while being circulated through the apparatus. If desired, separate air-heating apparatus may be provided between the fan and atomizers, or at any other desired point.

An important feature of the aforesaid construction of apparatus is that the air circulates in a substantially horizontal path, thus eliminating as far as possible undue wetting of the yarn. In previously proposed apparatus the circulation of the moistened air is in a substantially vertical path.

wagons charged with, baskets,

VVlienthefull number of baskets are not ona wagon, the orifice or orifices that would 'a be left uncovered'by the missing basket or baskets is or are covered by a loose board or boards provided for the purpose. While showing three wagons b, there may I be more orles s, the length of the chamber a being modified to suit. The chamber will preferably be divided by partitions of.

' What I claim is LApparatus fondamping or condition- I ing yarn or'thread comprising, a series of becarried on rail wagons and formed with chambers arranged'side by side, common pipes positioned to enter openings in the return conduit, provision being made to drain off excess moisture, substantially as de scribed.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for 2. Apparatus for damping or conditioning yarn or threads, comprising, in combination, a chamber, a perforated horizontal conduit within and extending from end to end of the chamber and also beyond one end of the chamber, a further horizontal conduit outside the chamber, apertures in the rear wall of the chamber, means for delivering water in a finely divided and heated state into the said inner conduit, a fan for continuously circulating air through the apparatus, wagons designed to be wheeled into and out of the said chamber and adapted to receive and carry baskets, each wagon being hollow and at a point below each basket having a large orifice, pipes at one end of the wagon, and baskets and battens therefor and bars of wood on the wagon, as set forth. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS HALLIlVELL.

lVitnesses F. C. PENNINGTON, F. J. MEREDITH.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of latents,

Washington, D. 0. 

